On December 20, 1976, Daley suffered a massive heart attack while visiting his doctor's office and died at the age of 74.

When John Stroger, who was first elected to the Cook County Board of Commissioners in 1970 and who served three terms as President beginning in 1994, suffered a stroke on March 14, 2006, Daley was mentioned as a likely fill-in who could be trusted until Stroger's son, Todd Stroger, could run to replace his father as President and William Beavers could run for his seat in the November 2006 elections.

He was the only child of Michael and Lillian Daley, whose families had both arrived from the Old Parish area, near Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland during the Great Famine.

On February 18, 2004 Daley said he would have " no problem " with Cook County issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, but stopped short of saying he would follow San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom by having the City of Chicago issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples, saying only the county clerk's office can issue marriage licenses.

Daley, David Orr, and Jane Byrne are currently the only living former Mayors of Chicago.

Byrne, David Orr and Richard M. Daley are currently the only living former Mayors of Chicago.

In 1969, Daley removed Washington's name from the slate ; only by the intervention of Cecil Partee, a party loyalist, was Washington reinstated.

Daley claimed to have received 135, 000 letters supporting his actions and only 5000 condemning them.

However, this similar chemical composition is not only associated with the digestive tract ; Budd and Daley suggest that it represents mineralization forming within fluid-filled cavities within the body ( consistent with hollow lobopod legs ).

Scriptwriter Brian Daley died only hours after recording concluded ; " additional material " was contributed by John Whitman, who introduced changes required for continuity with the newly developed plan for the prequels, as well as changes identified by the director and cast.

I knew from the beginning that every time Daley looked at Walker, he saw the Church of England and the British suppression of the Irish, and when Dan would look at Daley, he would see the quintessential politician who was only interested in political gain.

Lyle voted against Mayor Daley only once in Daley's sixth and final term, the four year period 2007-2011.

Thomas voted against Mayor Daley only once in Daley's sixth and final term, the four year period 2007-2011.

Daley collected what would be the only major trophy of his career.

Daley linked up with Graham Taylor again as he finally left Aston Villa for Wolverhampton Wanderers in July 1994 for £ 1. 25 million, but he was plagued with injuries and was only able to manage 21 appearances for the club in four seasons.

Daley died in Maryland of pancreatic cancer on February 11, 1996, only hours after celebrating the completion of production on the Return of the Jedi radio drama with the cast and crew.

* Arthur Daley ' 22-New York Times columnist and 1956 Pulitzer Prize winner, one of only three sportswriters to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for journalism.

Daley is the only son of the former mayor who still lives in Bridgeport.

Doherty is notable as the only member of the Republican Party in the Chicago City Council, but supports some of the policies of Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Daley's Democratic political machine was often accused of corruption, but while many of Daley's subordinates were jailed, Daley was never formally charged with corruption.

This was a matter of political opportunism and the peculiar setup for legislative elections in Illinois at the time, which allowed Daley to take the place on the ballot of the recently deceased Republican candidate David Shanahan.

During his administration, Daley ruled the city with an iron hand and dominated the political arena of the city and, to a lesser extent, that of the entire state.

A poll of 160 historians, political scientists and urban experts ranked Daley as the sixth best mayor in American history.

On the strength of his father's political machine, Daley ran for and won a seat in the Illinois Senate, serving from 1972 to 1980.

David Axelrod, a Democratic political consultant whose clients included Daley, contributed an op-ed to the Chicago Tribune in defense of patronage.

Although she was a product of the Daley political machine, Byrne positioned herself as a reformer in her first campaign.

Having replaced all of the members in the party citywide who would not bend to his will, Daley set to the creation of one of the last political machines in the country.

Gregory began his political career by running against Richard J. Daley for the mayoralty of Chicago in 1967.

After continuous abuses made on the floor of the convention of NBC correspondents – namely, interference and shadowing of the media staff by supporters of Hubert Humphrey, presumably with connections to political boss Richard J. Daley – voiced a protest of Daley's behavior and his alleged interference with freedoms of the press following Senator Abraham Ribicoff's stormy nomination of George McGovern.

Under Richard M. Daley, the Illinois legislature granted the mayor power to appoint the Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Public Schools and subordinated the district under the mayor's authority ; the district had long been an independent political field.

In Mayors and Money, a comparison of municipal government in Chicago and New York, Ester R. Fuchs credited the Cook County Democratic Organization with giving Mayor Richard J. Daley the political power to deny labor union contracts that the city could not afford and to make the state government assume burdensome costs like welfare and courts.

However, the progressive coalition that had finally ousted the political machine of former mayor Richard J. Daley was destroyed.

This political machine proved to be one of the most durable in American history, even outlasting the Daley family machine in Chicago.

In the predominantly African-American wards, Dawson was able to act as his own political boss, handing out patronage and punishing rivals just as leaders of the larger machine, such as Richard J. Daley, did.

The Daley family is an American political family from Chicago that is deeply entrenched the vast political machine system of Illinois.

* Daley family, powerful political family in Illinois state

Secretary of State Howlett was prepared to run for re-election in 1976, but was pressured by the Daley political organization to challenge incumbent Governor Dan Walker for the Democratic nomination in 1976.

Before transitioning to this private sector work about a decade ago, Wilhelm had established a reputation as a leading manager of political campaigns, working for candidates such as Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Richard Daley, the late Paul Simon and several other Illinois-based Democrats.

* David Axelrod ( political consultant ), a political consultant who has worked on campaigns of Barack Obama and Richard M. Daley

Daley joined hometown club Aston Villa as an apprentice and soon made his senior debut aged 17 on 20 April 1985 in a 2 – 0 defeat at Southampton.

* John P. Daley ( born 1946 )

* John P. Daley ( 1946 -), American Committeeman in Chicago

John P. Daley ( born December 5, 1946 ) is the 11th Ward Democratic Committeeman in Chicago, Illinois, a member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners ( 11th District ), and the Chair of the Cook County Board Audit and Finance Committee.